The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-08-15
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

| l| W INDUSTRIAL NOTES. 5tNt4.it-
Tho Wage Workers and their W0rk-Notes
5,dai About Trade. d
The New York Barbera' Union has only
900 out Of the $500 shops. s,,.,i
New knights OF Labor assemblies are
being formed oil over the West and South.
The American Glnss Workers' Union
compels foreign workmen: to pay 500 to
join. Il Ss5I5sl-
What tho Knights OF Labor have lost
Ia come quarters they have made up In
others. s. 1T .,'is, + ';lI5
Steam punching machinea arc displac.
Ing cigar making labor, and trouble Ia
brewing. si7
The cotton mills in two Southern States
exported 3O.000,0O0 yards OF cotton cloth
last year. ta,is sfll 4
A movement is to be made 10 advance
tho wages Of women engaged In shirt.
making in New York. 'f 5g#
Tho plumbers and steam. ftterH all over
the West are forming q national union.
The membership will be about $4,000.
Tile frat district assembly formed In
England is numbered POS. 1t has nine
local assemblies in good working order.
The tanners will coon hold q national
convention at Saratoga to count up the
losses OF tanning hides at present prices.
There are over 100000 children under
II years OF age employed, contrary to law,
IN the factories and workshops Of New
York. = l. 4 4; Il -
The number oil persons who atruck dur.
Ing the fiat week Of August Was 10,5O0,
while during all Of August, 1885, only 49,
200 struck. ~
The Brooklyn 'longshoremen employ
non.union musicians when they cole
brate, and che trades.union musicians arc
after them. as
The Massachusetts State Board OF Arbi.
trstion decided that the 800 Beverly last
CTS who threw $500 other shoemakers GU!
OF work had no case. :,
show Harmony May be restored' Is
George Z. McNeill's subject OF discussion
within the KnightB Of Lsbor. He recon-.
meRds the holding Of conference.
Southern factories from 1880 to 1887
have increase in number by 1858; in
capital from SITS, 1866 900 to 1871, S25. 600:
and In product from ,S5l5, 924, 1914 to $529,-
SS5,0O0. W. q. ,.llsE
There is great struggle among work.
lngmen in their unions and assemblies to
become, or at least to be considered,
Headers" This ambition is the cause Of
shree-fourtbs OF the defections. 4 -
Southern enterprise has been encour-
l mad hv fha pnnN nd tan
great degree OF interest in tho multitude Of
smaller industries employing from to 100
men. shopa and little factories arc multi
plying.
Eight pin manufactures in Now Eng.
land produce annually 100000 packs OF
pima. Each pack containa $3.50 pins,
sbich nakeo total yearly production OF
{, 720. 10000 pins. Thtse pins are usually
ont up in large cases, each case contain.
ing 81. 600 pins.
A ns., intuatry has come to light in the
conversion OF waste tobacco aud stems
into paper fabric. In quality it iu repre-.
sented 80 equal 10 linen for tho purpose,
snd, as the aggregate tobacco waste is
enormous, tho cost of this material ia COM
paratirely insignificant. -. =,
When Issac Cline, one Of our truest
labor Ieformors in Pittsburgh, took the
t1ain for his new home, in Kansas, not a
soul was there to gee him of. Had he de.
voted the game tweaty.six years to his
own benefit no doubt he would have been
o prosperous employer.
The output Of cotton goods In the
Southern statea has incresaed from 1872
76l 29S yards III 1880 10 2O3, 9SS. 3S4 yards
IL 1856, or one,Ihi'd since 1880 forty.
nine cotton factories have bsen establish.
cd. The great increase hes been in the
capacity Of Individual mills, and there
now, it is taid, over thirty under erection
and projected. = : , 4,
| A much larger number OF workmen
than usual are taking vacation, whether
allowed or not. In many cities vacation
Clubs have been informally organized, and
the workmen. depart In tquads, most OF
them to sock rural or fishing haunte. This
custom. will grow rapidly, and in q few
years the vacation will become IN inati-
tuition among American workmen, Just as
cRnp meetings now arc. There is grow.
ing sentiment against continuous summer
lsDor. The demand for labor ia great, and
in numerous branches the supply is far
short Of the demand. Wages are high,
and very few efforts ere made by employ.
era TO reduce them. The great anxiety
now is to have enough men to fill incom.
ing and anticipated orders. fata
T. v. Powdsrly, in The Journal of United
Labor, to be iasued to-day, has an editorial
headed ""Aesociation Is the Watchword Of
the Future,nn in the course of which he
Z Gays: 1.-THE individual employer hardly
exists to-day, and that legal entity, tbs
joint stock corporation, is practically pSss.
ing away. The combinations" 1ss'poola,' y
and "trusta" Of manufacturers are becom,
ing tho iaahion in the industrial world
This means simply q confederation OF EN-,
ployers to rsiss the prices Of articles OF or
binary consumption by means OF curtsil
: lug their production. It does not mean
the raising OF wages even in the indus.rie.
affected, but lesa work and less pay, and
wo1kmen generally suffer in proportion Il
this artificial restriction OF production, fol
Z they are the largest consumers in society
and spend tho greater part. OF their in
comes In mere subsistence. On the Other
hand, tho indun.rial evolution, the advent
and development of the factory system
has affected changes in another direction
The journcymen hsndicraitsmen have
gone from the scene and given way; tt
operatives whose massing into tsctoriei
has not only made possible but necessary
4 continuation on their5pa,t Of. far more
!; elective kind than the old trades unions
a Whose day Of usefulness is fast passin,
J away. Nearly every department OF in
dustry has been affected. Skilled snc
unskilled labor are now more and more
( approximating each other, even where
: machinery is not used ito any extent
I Whenever omployern get into trouble